Summary
Jake Sandler is a Senior Software Engineer based in Somerville, MA with over a decade of professional experience and 5+ years focused on backend and distributed systems. He has driven end-to-end projects at startups and large companies—leading teams to build AWS-hosted Go backends, optimize critical Go codepaths to cut vendor costs tenfold, and accelerate customer onboarding from months to days. At Google he reduced configuration propagation from weeks to minutes and built cross-language client libraries, demonstrating a knack for performance-sensitive systems and multi-language interoperability. Jake pairs hands-on implementation (C++, Go, Python, Typescript) with pragmatic design: creating data abstraction and caching layers that simplify architectures and save resources. He also brings teaching experience, having developed course materials and transitioned curricula to Rust, reflecting an ability to explain complex concepts and adapt tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Current Student Mathematics and Computer Science, Current Student Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Maryland
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